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Yes, agree with you nicmeljones, this is what we have been insisting upon for a long time now, at least during the rush hour this should be the case. Some separation has been already implemented and is working well. Crowd control and pedestrians compliance with the rules issues must also be urgently addressed and KFS need the support of authorities on this one.

I do not know first hand yet what happened this morning but from the pictures provided by KRC it looks like this might have happened when pedestrians were being loaded and a truck lost control (brakes failure, mechanical problem, poor maintenance -?) and must have run into a crowd. If this is the case, pedestrians cannot be really blamed and the truck company and a driver must be held responsible. However at this stage unless someone has a first hand account it is really difficult to say what exactly happened. Nevertheless it is a tragedy and human lives have been lost.

The sooner someone comes to their senses and builds a blooming bridge (there must be an architect out there with a solution) and the bypass road is finished the better. So many incidents and too many lives lost over the years.

Judging by the pictures on the NTV website ( with no commentary) it looks as though the truck actually ran up the ramp into the passengers already on the ferry, as there is film of it being pushed off the ferry to sink in the channel - which is what the pictures in the Standard link above are showing

Bridge is out of the question. Assessments and surveys have been done and to build a bridge high enough to allow the big ships to go under will mean to demolish half of Mombasa with a run up starting nearly at Nyali bridge. Bypass will definitely help. All heavy traffic and all those going onto Mombasa highway will be using it, the funding is in place, survey is underway, plans have been formed. It looks like there will be 4 bridges and one around a kilometre long - but it will take time to build.

Immediate solution: all users follow the rules which are there but mainly pedestrians choose to ignore. KFS to stop overloaded lorries - they are in a process to set up a weigh bridge on both sides. Unfortunately, if this lorry lost control, no measures would have been able to prevent this tragedy.

What adds to the pedestrian traffic is that Mtongwe ferry crossing has been closed for quite some time now - some work was to be done but was delayed, etc. This brought many thousands of pedestrians to Likoni crossing.

It indeed looks like the lorry lost control and ran into a ferry with pedestrians. Often at rush hour the entire ferry is given for pedestrians, this must have been the case here as well - there seem to be no cars on the ferry and the ferry eventually pulled off to let the lorry slide off into water.